In addition to the 7 hours of live coverage and all the interviews and videos on HydroInsider.com and the HydroInsider.com LIVE BLOG, I spent the weekend running around with the race coverage teams and venturing off on my own doing interviews.

I'm pretty impressed with my new toy, a point-and-shoot video camera called the Flip Phone. Line it up, press record and shoot. When you're done, pop out the USB drive and upload to You Tube. It's truly idiot proof. Records 60 minutes of video and costs under $150.

Anyway, there are another 30 + interviews to watch if you still need a hydro fix!

Mark Allen and Steve Montgomery will have the play-by-play. Locally, you can turn to KNDU-TV in Tri-Cities, WA or KNDO-TV in Yakima, WA to watch the coverage on TV.

Because of the live streaming coverage, the blog coverage will be a little different today. Kirk Duncan has agreed to give you updates, but there will be less material from on-site... we're all busy with the broadcast! But, I figured you'd all rather watch it live than read about it after-the-fact.

Jimmy Shane and U-7 went to test in the morning session and appear to be ready to race today.

The U-25 Procraft Windows has withdrawn from today's Columbia Cup. Dr. Ken Muscatel said steering issues that forced the boat to violently turn left in yesterday's Heat 1C can't be fixed today.

Chief Referee Mike Noonan has changed the draws for todays first set of heats. Both U-25 and U-7 did not qualify and were given Commissioner's options. They were seeded before the heat draws into their heats. So, since the U-25 has withdrawn, the U-7 will be moved from Heat 2A to Heat 2B. The rest of the boats in each heat stays the same---4 boats in each of the three heats.

U-25 and Ken Muscatel have withdrawn for the weekend due to problems with steering cables that snapped during heat racing on Saturday. Here's the video report from Sat night, including an interview with Dr. Ken and video fo the incident.